Building Better Families
A Practical Guide to Raising Amazing Children
By Matthew Kelly (Ballantine, $23)
Have realistic expectations of your brood, pleads the motivational speaker/author. Parents can’t attain perfection, but they can build a better family through goal-setting and hard work.
1. “Children need leadership, and if you don’t play the role, somebody else will.”
2. Individuals must have a common, unchanging purpose: Become the best version of yourself. Families must also follow this mandate, with members supporting one another.
3. If we want our children to become the best versions of themselves, “we need to do everything within our power to equip them with virtue and character, and the best way to do that is to model these things ourselves.”
4. Young people become obsessed with things. It’s the parents’ job to ensure those obsessions remain in check.
5. All parents have dreams for and fears about their children. We must nurture the dreams, as they animate our lives, and conquer the fears.
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